The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3, sentence 91

“The river is not deep at all,” he said; “why, you will never be off your feet.

Who acts: river · What happens: not be, say, be · To what, where: all, feet · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (river), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 deep	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 river	det
3	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 deep	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 deep	cop
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 deep	advmod
6	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 said	ccomp
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 deep	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 deep	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 deep	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 said	nsubj
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 feet	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	23 feet	punct
15	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	20 be	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 why	punct
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 be	nsubj
18	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 be	aux
19	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	20 be	advmod
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 feet	cop
21	off	off	ADP	_	20 be	compound:prt
22	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 feet	nmod:poss
23	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 said	parataxis
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is in a quote	present	the river		all	deep property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	river				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is a in a quote	infinitive		your feet			tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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